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  Author : Authors are individuals who, by their intellectual and imaginative powers, purposefully create from their experience and reading a literary work which is distinctively their own

Famously, in 1968 Roland Barthes proclaimed and celebrated “The Death of the Author,” whom he described as a figure invented by critical discourse in order to set limits to the inherent free play of the mean ings in reading a literary text.

Both Foucault and Barthes, in the essays cited above, emphasized that the modern concept of an author as an individual who is the intellectual owner of his or her literary product was the result of the ideology engen dered by the emerging capitalist economy in this era (M H Abrams, 2012) P 19

Historians of authorship point out that the most emphatic claims about the genius, creativity, and origi nality of authors